Genre:

Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Agriculture, Machinery, Steam-power, Animal Husbandry, Progress

    Subtitled 'Adapted to the Improved System of Agriculture', reflects on the fact that his master employs only 'two men and a boy; / The rest is Machines [...] and the chief of his servants is osses and steam'. Anticipates that 'gentlefolks' dining at the 'fat cattle show' will now drink to 'the Machine'.